PaginateData: Paginate PushShift Data

In Spiritspeak/PAWR: Pushshift API Wrapper for R

Description

Send multiple queries to pushshift.io, to be able to get all data within a given date range.

Usage

PaginateData(
  type = c("comment", "submission", "subreddit"),
  verbose = getOption("PAWR.VerbosePaginate"),
  before = round(as.numeric(Sys.time())),
  after = NULL,
  timescope = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

type	Type of requested content. Can be comment, submission, or subreddit.
verbose	Should output be verbose? Defaults to a global option which can be set with options(PAWR.VerbosePaginate=TRUE/FALSE).
before	Upper limit in the date range of posts to be fetched.
after	Lower limit in the date range of posts to be fetched.
timescope	Time range, in seconds, within which posts should be fetched; works in conjunction with either before or after. When argument after is used, timescope causes the current function to fetch data that was created up to N seconds after the timestamp defined in after When argument before is used, timescope causes the current function to fetch data that was created up to N seconds before the timestamp defined in before
...	Other valid parameters. Run PSParams() to see all valid parameters and their descriptions.

Examples

#Get all comments from today containing the word "chocolate"
PaginateData(timescope=24 * 60 * 60,q="chocolate")

Spiritspeak/PAWR documentation built on March 21, 2021, 4:14 p.m.